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Old World

Collectively Africa, Asia and Europe

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The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia coined by Europeans after 1493, when they became aware of the existence of the Americas, Oceania, and Antarctica. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia in the Eastern Hemisphere, previously thought of by the Europeans as the entire world, with the "New World", the newly encountered lands of the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Opposite of: New World
Said to be the same as: Afro-Eurasia

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9 identifiers linking Old World across the web's reference databases

25.5088, 44.3073OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDb. (2026). Old World (Q174807). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/old-world-Q174807